Sentence examples for ecological abuse from inspiring English sources

Although a population explosion and severe ecological abuse of the land must have played their role in the tragedy, the full story of the decline and fall of this brilliant aboriginal civilization remains to be told.

As a brief definition, "an ecological approach to abuse conceptualizes violence as a multifaceted phenomenon grounded in an interplay among personal, situational, and socio-cultural factors" [ 4].

It has been less willing to take responsibility for Texaco's ecological and human rights abuses.

Instead, Black Mesa has suffered human rights abuses and ecological devastation; the Hopi water supply is drying up; thousands of archeological sites have been destroyed; and, unbeknownst to most Americans, twelve thousand Navajos have been removed from their lands-the largest removal of Indians in the United States since the 1880s".

We must recognize that every religion is a complex mixture of ideas that can be used to either rationalize environmental abuse or encourage ecological harmony.

Spy satellites that had been used exclusively for military purposes were sometimes used for other tasks, such as collecting evidence of ecological disasters and human rights abuses.

Yet the widespread interpretation of such events as signs, whether ecological or divine, that humankind's abuse of the planet has gone too far appears to be relatively new.

Factors that contribute to the emergence of these novel phenotype pathogens are the abuse of antimicrobial drugs, ecological and host-driven microbial mixing, microbial mutations, genetic drift or re-assortment and environmental selection.